It
has become a fad to say, let your worries last as long as your New Year
resolutions, which sarcastically hints that invariably all New Year resolutions
are short lived or soon broken. Well, it is quiet true in many cases and it is
really disheartening when our New Year resolution end unfulfilled.
If
you observe closely at a New Year resolution it is typically about stopping
something old or starting something new. It may be like, you want to give up a
bad habit, such as drinking, smoking etc from the start of the New Year or it
may be something like you wanting to inculcate a new habit from the beginning
of the New Year, like doing a daily exercise or sitting to meditate for few
minutes every day. Whatever it may be, it all calls for a disciplined effort.
When it comes to disciplining ourselves, it goes without saying that we need
follow a fixed monotonous routine. Whatever is monotonous soon gets boring. The
energy and optimism with which we created the resolution slowly fades away, as
days go by and as other new interesting things come up in life, we tend to lose
focus. It is here we feel an urge to take a break and as an end result our New
Year resolutions get broken. And once we break the resolution, we never gather
the courage to start all over again.
Well,
I was just wondering of what better way there could be to make our resolutions
work and an idea popped up in my mind. I
asked myself, why a New Year resolution should only revolve around starting
something new or stopping something old. Why not it be something to do with
doing something current, which we like to do, but never find the time to do.
It
is quiet common that all of us have a lot of unfulfilled wishes and desires,
but for some reason or other we have been putting it off for a later time. We wait for the right time or right moment to
do it and then later end complaining, that we could never find the time.
For
example, I have a lot of pending wishes. There are books I wish to read, old
movies I have been wanting to watch,places I have been wanting to visit,
programmes I have been wanting to attend, skills I have been wanting to
develop, friends I have been wanting to spend time with and so many other
things. But because I don’t consciously allot a time for it, it never happens.
It continues to be a moving target. So, I was looking at this idea of having an
assortment of resolutions, which can be accomplished within a year, rather than
having just one resolution.
We
could probable resolve to do a bouquet of things, rather than just sticking to
one BIG resolution.This makes it more easily achievable and it also would give
us a satisfaction of having done many thing in the year. For example, it could
be something like:
·
4 books, I will read this
year
·
2 new skills I will
develop this year
·
2 new places, I will see
this year
·
2 family vacations, I will
take this year
·
One friends reunion I will
initiate this year
·
Watch one old movie every
month
·
Watch a specific programme
on TV every week (either live or recorded)
This
is rather easy to achieve, if we take a little conscious effort. Even, if for
some reason, we are not able to accomplish all, we will still get to accomplish
majority of them, which will make our year more fulfilling.
I
am not sure, how brilliant the idea is or how effective it would be, but
something I am planning to try out this year. I invite you to join me in this
experiment and let us see how we much we have been able to accomplish at the
end of the year.
Let
this New Year, help us realize not just one but a dozen resolutions and make
this New Year 2015, truly beautiful.
Happy Reading,
D. Senthil Kannan
Article Dated Jan 2015
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